Don't even bother watching this movie. Syfy continues to disappoint me with the B movies they turn out.
Thor is played by some guy named Cody Deal who, with his oversized teeth and beach blonde hair, would be much better cast as a surfer or the dumb jock in a high school movie. He utterly fails to come across as a deity--heck he doesn't even come across as a warrior.
Robert Greico plays Loki, and although he is clearly the best actor cast for this movie, I was simply irritated at the flatness of the character (which is more bad writing than bad acting). He comes across a closer match to the Christian notion of Satan than the classic trickster Loki. It's not just the stupid Goth outfit and white face paint. He simply lacked CHARM. And one of the intriguing elements of the Trickster is that under his bad boy lying persona, he has the best interests of humanity at heart -- quite the opposite of this "destroy humanity and the world" rendition in Thor Almighty. It's quite possible that after John de Lancie's brilliant portrayal of Q in ST: TNG, that all other versions of the trickster may seem to fall short in comparison.
What is MISSING from the plot is... Mortal characters. The switching of the myth to modern day Los Angeles is cool, but without any personal interactions between the gods and mortals, its just shallow, with humans being mere ants manipulated by the gods. The sappy moral to the story, that we make our own fate, doesn't make it, since there is no human being to fight for this.
RECOMMENDATION: If you like myths and archetypes played out in contemporary settings, try Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in The Fisher King.
Thor is played by some guy named Cody Deal who, with his oversized teeth and beach blonde hair, would be much better cast as a surfer or the dumb jock in a high school movie. He utterly fails to come across as a deity--heck he doesn't even come across as a warrior.
Robert Greico plays Loki, and although he is clearly the best actor cast for this movie, I was simply irritated at the flatness of the character (which is more bad writing than bad acting). He comes across a closer match to the Christian notion of Satan than the classic trickster Loki. It's not just the stupid Goth outfit and white face paint. He simply lacked CHARM. And one of the intriguing elements of the Trickster is that under his bad boy lying persona, he has the best interests of humanity at heart -- quite the opposite of this "destroy humanity and the world" rendition in Thor Almighty. It's quite possible that after John de Lancie's brilliant portrayal of Q in ST: TNG, that all other versions of the trickster may seem to fall short in comparison.
What is MISSING from the plot is... Mortal characters. The switching of the myth to modern day Los Angeles is cool, but without any personal interactions between the gods and mortals, its just shallow, with humans being mere ants manipulated by the gods. The sappy moral to the story, that we make our own fate, doesn't make it, since there is no human being to fight for this.
RECOMMENDATION: If you like myths and archetypes played out in contemporary settings, try Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in The Fisher King.